Lisbeth Zwerger

Lisbeth Zwerger (born May 26, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian children's book illustrator .

Lisbeth Zwerger is the daughter of the artist and cartographer of the Athos map, Reinhold Zwerger . From 1971 to 1974 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since the publication of her first illustrated book in 1977, she has been working as a freelance picture book illustrator in Vienna, with a particular passion for fairy tales .

Awards

• BIB gold plaque (twice)
• 1985: Golden Apple BIB
• several New York Times awards
• four times Bologna Ragazzi Award
• 1990: Hans Christian Andersen Award
• 1994: Pied Piper Prize for Literature for The Dwarf Nose and Children's Poems and Gallows Songs
• 1998: Austrian Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature
• 2002: Illustration prize for books for children and young people for The Bible
• 2003: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 2015: Wildweibchenpreis of the community of Reichelsheim in the Odenwald

Works

• The strange child of ETA Hoffmann , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1977
• The fairy tale of rose petals by Clemens Brentano , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1978
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi , Ueberreuter 1978
• Fairy tale of romanticism by Ingrid Weixelbaumer (ed.), Betz 1978
• Hansel and Gretel from Brothers Grimm , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1979
• Nutcracker and Mouse King by ETA Hoffmann , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1979
• Däumelieschen by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1980
• The Seven Ravens by Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 1981
• The swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1982
• The Gift of the Wise Men from O. Henry Neugebauer 1982
• Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 1983
• The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1984
• The selfish giant by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer 1984
• The Savior of the Country by Edith Nesbit , Neugebauer 1985
• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer 1986
• Nutcracker and Mouse King by ETA Hoffmann , Neugebauer 1987
• A Christmas fairy tale by Charles Dickens , Neugebauer 1988
• 12 fables by Aesop , Neugebauer 1989
• Till Eulenspiegel by Heinz Janisch , Neugebauer 1990
• Dance songs by Dorothee Kreusch-Jacob, Neugebauer 1990
• Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1991
• The sandman is coming: 7 bedtime stories by Hans Christian Andersen , 1992
• Children's poems and gallows songs by Christian Morgenstern , Neugebauer 1992
• The dwarf nose by Wilhelm Hauff , Neugebauer 1993
• The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger (catalog of works) 1993
• The little Häwelmann by Theodor Storm , Neugebauer 1995
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , Neugebauer 1996
• Noah's Ark by Heinz Janisch , Neugebauer 1997
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , Neugebauer 1999
• The Bible , Neugebauer 2000
• How the camel got its hump by Rudyard Kipling , Neugebauer 2001
• Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Neugebauer 2002
• Nutcracker from ETA Hoffmann , Neugebauer 2003
• The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 2004
• The night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore , Neugebauer 2005
• The Bremen Town Musicians , Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 2006
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , No & But 2007
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , NordSüd Verl. 2009
• The Pied Piper of Hameln , Brothers Grimm , 2009
• The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer Ed. 2010
• The dream beech and other reveries by French chimneys Richard Volkmann-Leander , 2010
• The World of Imagination (catalog for the traveling exhibition) by Renate Raecke and Elisabeth Hohmeister (eds.), With an essay by Willy Puchner , 2010.
• Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner , edited by Jürg Amann . NordSüd Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-314-10181-6 .
• Miracles. World literature for children . NordSüd Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-314-10226-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lisbeth Zwerger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhold Zwerger's website; accessed on May 30, 2015.
2. ^ The magic of repeated gazes in FAZ of June 30, 2014, page 10